Joan Baez – A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall (Guitar)

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Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?

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Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

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I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

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I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

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I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

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I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

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I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

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And it's hard, and it's  hard, it's hard, and it's hard

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It's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?

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Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?

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I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it

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I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

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I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'

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I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'

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I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

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I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

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And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, and it's hard

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And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?

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And what did you hear, my darling young one?

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I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'

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I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

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I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'

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I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'

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I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'

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I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter

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I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

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And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, and it's hard

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And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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And who did you meet, my blue eyed son?

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Ah, who did you meet, my darling young one?

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I met a young child beside a dead pony

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I met a white man who walked a black dog

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I met a young woman whose body was burning

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I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

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I met one man who was wounded in love

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I met another man who was wounded in hatred

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And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, and it's hard

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And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?

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Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?

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I'm goin' back out before the rain starts a fallin'

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I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest

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Where the people are many and their hands are all empty

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Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

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Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison

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Where the executioner's face is always well hidden

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Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten

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Where black is the color and none is the number

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And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it

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And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it

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And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'

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But I'll know my song well before I start singin'

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And it's hard, and it's hard, it's hard, and it's hard

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And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall